Example sentences of "that [prep] the [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gibble and Chu point out that for the latter option , it is not necessary to know the absolute density with high precision , but just the ratio of densities . |
| 2 | I ca n't remember now whether in fact we were allowed any at all while we were in the Waaf , but I know that for the few years after I became a civilian again and clothes rationing still went on , the ration allocation was so small that the prospect of buying , for instance , a new winter coat was exceedingly small for most women , especially those with children , whose needs had to come first . |
| 3 | We found that for the same journey in the same conditions , our average mpg shot up to 52 . |
| 4 | This view affects more than just clever scholars ; I believe that for the same reason many Christians who hold to some belief in the Devil do not believe in evil spirits either . |
| 5 | As an illustration , he notes that despite the many differences between industrial relations under communist systems in certain countries such as the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia , and those under the capitalist system in Britain , the emergence of the shopfloor representative in the workplace as a crucial role-player is common to all , albeit making representations about different issues . |
| 6 | It is emphasized still further when we see that of the latter group none has external lockboard battens . |
| 7 | Fleming sought help in identifying the mould from the mycologist La Touche , who worked in the same building and who thought that of the many species of Penicillium , it was most like Penicillium rubrum . |
| 8 | She exposed the soles of her feet at the mouth of the oven … she drank gall and rubbed her eyes therewith … in her ardent desire for suffering she made herself a silver circlet in which she fixed three rows of sharp points in honour of the thirty-three years that the Son of God lived upon earth … she wore it underneath her veil to make it the more painful as these points being unequally long did not all pierce at the same time … so that with the least agitation these iron thorns tore her flesh in ninety-nine places … |
| 9 | To say of two linguistic expressions that they have the " same meaning " , at best , is to say that under the same sort of conditions , they can be used in the same way , to the same effect . |
| 10 | He knew that kidnap and torture were a blatant violation of the Chilean military code and that under the same code he was entitled to register any reservations with a superior officer . |
| 11 | An observer would follow the same procedure in judging the traveller 's choice right or wrong and in predicting that choice , except that in the former case the question is how the traveller would react in fullest awareness , in the latter how he will react in his actual awareness . |
| 12 | Italy and the USA constitute rogue cases in the sense that in the former case there was political interest in change , while in the latter case there was an extraordinary mass interest in psychiatry . |
| 13 | The difference is that in the former case it is the teachers and support staff who use the systems , while in the latter it is the learners . |
| 14 | It is submitted that in the former case the approach would probably be modified by the basic duty of fidelity to the extent that confidentiality would be lost only if the employer could be said to have shown wilful disregard to the quality of the confidence , rather than having been merely negligent . |
| 15 | An important difference between conventional statistics and statistics of grain size distributions is that in the former frequency is expressed as numbers whereas in the latter it is as weight percentage . |
| 16 | It is that in the former situation it will be possible to adduce evidence as to established professional practice with which the defendant 's actions can be compared , whereas in business , while it may be clear what steps should be taken before a decision is made , it is not obvious by what criteria the decision itself should be judged . |
| 17 | The reason is that in the latter approach the magnetic field is overestimated near the ends inside the solenoid , and underestimated outside the solenoid . |
| 18 | This suggests that the difference between seeing a picture as a jumble of meaningless lines , and seeing it as a picture of a landscape , is that in the latter case an act of recognition , or of interpretation , takes place . |
| 19 | One of the most important points of difference between language acquisition by human beings and the deficient parallel process in the case of the ape language experiments is , of course , that in the latter case one is not dealing with the acquisition by the young of a system employed already by conspecific elders . |
| 20 | Why , the galaxy is so vast that in the latter case I could continue to pose — and behave — as an Inquisitor ; though I would truly be a renegade … ’ |
| 21 | There is , of course , one important difference , namely , that in the latter case the meaning options are paralleled by differences of form , and so it is easy to individuate and enumerate the elements from which the choice must be made . |
| 22 | ( 1 ) The names of all the directors of a recognised body shall be stated either on the body 's stationery or in a list of the names of all the directors maintained at the body 's registered office provided that in the latter case the body 's stationery must state that such a list of all the directors ' names is open to inspection at the body 's registered office and must state the address of that office . |
| 23 | So I feel a terrific relief and release that in the latter part of my business life I 've been really able to make things happen at a considerable speed . |
| 24 | It is not surprising , therefore , that in the latter part of 1987 the Yugoslav government failed , for the first time , to pay interest on its foreign debt . |
| 25 | ‘ Of course I would have liked to have taken 50 or 60 wickets , but I felt that in the latter part of the season , I proved my fitness once and for all . |
| 26 | The House will recall that in the latter part of last year both my right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer and my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State outlined measures to be taken by both the Government and mortgage lenders with the excellent aim of reducing the level of repossessions that were occurring at that time . |
| 27 | The argument presented here is that in the latter part of the twentieth century more and more capitalists have come to believe that their objective interests are best served through transnational practices , as evidenced by the phenomenal growth of the presence and influence of the TNCs outside the hegemon countries , and what I am describing as transnational capitalist classes . |
| 28 | It is interesting that in the latter half of the twentieth century , this perspective can find such resonance . |
| 29 | The difference between Earth and Middle-earth , one might say , is that in the latter faith can , just sometimes , be perceived as fact . |
| 30 | She smiled down at him and realized that in the few weeks he 'd been with her he had not only put on weight but had grown a few inches in height too . |